Non-payment of Bonus to the employees; Kuldeep writes to CS

Port Blair, Nov 04: Mr. Kuldeep Rai Sharma , President , INTUC (A&N Islands) has invited the attention of Chief Secretary , A&N Administration regarding non-payment of Bonus to the employees engaged on Contract basis by various departments of A&N Administration viz. Directorate of Shipping Services, Directorate of Transport etc. In this context, Kuldeep has referred to the Ministry of Finance, Government of India Office Memorandum No. 7/24/2007/E III(A) dated 8th October 2018 which pertains to grant of Non-Productivity Linked Bonus(ad-hoc bonus) to government employees for the year 2017-18 and emphasized that as per clarification given at Point no. 1(h) of the annexure attached to the said Office Memorandum , the contract employees are eligible for payment of Non-Productivity Linked Bonus(ad-hoc bonus) similar to that of regular employees if the contract employee is eligible for benefit like dearness allowance and interim relief(currently not applicable), otherwise the ad-hoc bonus need to be paid at par with the casual labour as envisaged in the Office Memorandum referred above.
In his letter Kuldeep appealed to the Chief Secretary to issue specific direction to the departments of A&N Administration to pay bonus to the contract employees in terms of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India Office Memorandum No. 7/24/2007/E III (A) dated 8th October 2018